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Fast Facts on SpongeBob SquarePants

Absorb yourself in SpongeBob trivia by Holly Hartman More on SpongeBob The Science of SpongeBobQuiz: SpongeBob SquarePantsOther Cool Stuff Sea LifeSpongesFantastic Animal Facts Do…

Brewer's: Bedlam

A lunatic asylum or madhouse; a contraction for Bethlehem, the name of a religious house in London, converted into a hospital for lunatics. Tom o' Bedlam. (See Tom.) St. Mary of Bethlehem…

Brewer's: Jerry-shop

or a Tom and Jerry Shop. A low-class beer-house. Probably the Tom and Jerry was a public-house sign when Pierce Egan's Life in London was popular. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable…

Brewer's: Corinthian Order

The most richly decorated of the five orders of Greek architecture. The shaft is fluted, and the capital adorned with acanthus leaves. (See Acanthus .) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…

Brewer's: Cringle

(Tom). An excellent sailor character in the naval story by Michael Scott, called Tom Cringle's Log, first published in Blackwood's Magazine. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…

Brewer's: Black Thursday

February 6th, 1851; so called in the colony of Victoria, from a terrible bush-fire which then occurred. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Black TomBlack-thorn…

Brewer's: Black Watch

Companies employed to watch the Islands of Scotland. They dressed in a “black” or dark tartan (1725). Subsequently they were enrolled into the 42nd regiment, under the Earl of Crawford, in…

Brewer's: Boast of England

(The). Tom Thumb or Tom-a-lin. Richard Johnson, in 1599, published a “history of this ever-renowned soldier, the Red Rose Knight, surnamed The Boast of England, showing his honorable…

Brewer's: Loud Patterns

Flashy, showy ones. The analogy between sound and colour is very striking. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Loud as Tom of LincolnLotus-eaters A B C D E…

Brewer's: Louis

(St.) is usually represented as holding the Saviour's crown of thorns and the cross, sometimes, however, he is represented with a pilgrim's staff, and sometimes with the standard of the…